Of all the made-up, in your head, they make a pill for everything diseases, I had to have this one.
Restless. Leg. Syndrome.
It is wonderful, I assure you.
I have suffered from it for about 25 yrs.
It wasn't constant, just occasional, uncomfortable and annoying.
Of course, when it started I was a teen girl and my mom chalked it up to "growing pains".
I always called it my "twitchy legs".
As the years progressed, it has become more and more insistent.
Hell, up until a few years ago, I thought I was just some strange freak of nature with twitchy legs.
Then, one day, I saw a commercial on television for yet another miracle pill.
I tuned it out until I heard "an irresistible need to move your legs".
That immediately caught my attention.
I listened and for the first time, there was a medical name for my twitchy legs.
No I'm not a recovering meth-head, coke freak or currently on a shall go unnamed antidepressant which can cause uncontrolled muscle movements and if left untreated can become permanent.
I'm just a near 40 woman whose legs have a freakin' mind of their own.
For all of those nonbelievers who say there is no such thing, I wish for you one week of nights, laying awake unable to lay still enough to finally fall asleep. The feeling in your legs is almost indescribable.
It's not overly painful.
It's more annoying.
My muscles and joints start to feel as though they have been asleep and are just waking up.
They creep and crawl.
If I do not move my legs, I will die.
It's an extremely odd feeling.
I know.
They have a name for everything, nowdays.
Just another way to make money.
Blah, blah, blah.
I would feel the same way.
I still do about alot of things.
Not this, though.
I'm kind of at a crossroads right now.
It's getting bad enough that I might sleep for an hour solid throughout the night.
The rest of the time I spend tossing and turning.
I'm exhausted.
It's showing in my interactions with my children, my housekeeping, my sex life, my overall quality of life.
I do not want to go to the doctor and start medication.
I'm not a take-a-pill, that'll fix it kind of girl.
I'am however, a very tired girl...
